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Who runs YouTube, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest local television news alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
The Seattle Times

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs YouTube

YouTube king5.com

KING 5 News (NBC Seattle)Seattle Leading Local News: Weather, Traffic, Sports & MoreSee Seattle through new lens with our flagship YouTube series, Local Lens...

Wikidata: television station

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What YouTube tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

6 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
3 tools
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to YouTube

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to YouTube, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than YouTubeNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    The Seattle Times seattletimes.com Top 10K English 6 trackers

    The Seattle Times | Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

    Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

    Compare The Seattle Times with YouTube →
  2. 02

    newspaper in Seattle, Washington

    Compare Seattle Post-Intelligencer with YouTube →
  3. 03
    KUOW kuow.org English 2 trackers

    KUOW - KUOW News and Information: Seattle's NPR station

    The Seattle area’s public radio news station with independent reporting, award-winning journalism, podcasts, and events for Western Washington. Shows include Seattle Now and Soundside. Seattle's NPR station.

    Compare KUOW with YouTube →
  4. 04
    WCVB-TV wcvb.com

    ABC affiliate in Boston

    Compare WCVB-TV with YouTube →
  5. 05

    NBC flagship television station in New York City

    Compare nbcnewyork.com with YouTube →
  6. 06
    The Stranger thestranger.com English 7 trackers

    Homepage - The Stranger

    LATEST COLUMNS MORE COLUMNS Asian Verified • Play Date • Super Seattle Sonics What’s Inside

    Compare The Stranger with YouTube →
  7. 07
    Click2Houston click2houston.com English 3 trackers

    Click2Houston | Houston News, Texas News, Weather, Sports | KPRC 2

    Visit Click2Houston.com for breaking news in Houston, Texas from KPRC. Houston, Texas breaking news, headlines, weather, and sports. The latest local Houston, Texas news and more from NBC TV's local affiliate in Houston, Texas, KPRC - Houston's Channel 2.

    Compare Click2Houston with YouTube →
  8. 08
    ABC7 abc7.com English No trackers

    ABC7 Los Angeles and Southern California | KABC Eyewitness News

    Los Angeles' source for breaking news and live streaming video online. Covering Los Angeles, Orange County and all of the greater Southern California area.

    Compare ABC7 with YouTube →
  9. 09
    NBC News nbcnews.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    NBC News - Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World, U.S. and Local Angles | NBC News

    Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.

    Compare NBC News with YouTube →
  10. 10
    Today today.com Top 10K

    American morning television program broadcast on NBC

    Compare Today with YouTube →
  11. 11
    CP24 cp24.com English 6 trackers

    CP24 – Toronto Breaking News, Live Updates, Weather and Traffic Today

    Get the latest breaking news headlines, weather reports, and traffic updates on Greater Toronto and the Hamilton Area.

    Compare CP24 with YouTube →
  12. 12
    Sveriges Television svt.se Top 10K Swedish No trackers

    SVT Nyheter

    SVT Nyheter med senaste nytt om dagens viktigaste nyheter, live, lokala nyheter, väder, recensioner och sportens målservice.

    Compare Sveriges Television with YouTube →
  13. 13
    TV 2 Direkte tv2.no Top 10K Norwegian Bokmål 1 tracker

    Kåret til Årets Mediehus 2026

    TV 2 er Norges beste nettsted for nyheter, sport, underholdning, vær, tv-guide og video

    Compare TV 2 Direkte with YouTube →
  14. 14
    channelnewsasia.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Breaking News and Analysis on Asia and the World | Real-Time Coverage out of Asia and Singapore - CNA

    Get 24/7 real-time updates on breaking news from Asia, Singapore and around the world. CNA delivers accurate, timely coverage of events as they unfold. Stay informed.

    Compare channelnewsasia.com with YouTube →
  15. 15
    fox5ny.com English 6 trackers

    FOX 5 New York | Local News, Weather, and Live Streams | WNYW

    New York news, weather, traffic and sports from FOX 5 NY serving New York City, Long Island, New York, New Jersey and Westchester County. Watch breaking news live and Good Day New York.

    Compare fox5ny.com with YouTube →
  16. 16
    Local 10 local10.com English 3 trackers

    WPLG Local 10 | Miami News, Fort Lauderdale News, Weather | Local10.com

    WPLG Local 10 | Miami News, Fort Lauderdale News, Weather | Local10.com

    Compare Local 10 with YouTube →
  17. 17
    The Hill thehill.com Top 10K English 7 trackers

    The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill

    The Hill is a top US political website, read by the White House and more lawmakers than any other site -- vital for policy, politics and election campaigns.

    Compare The Hill with YouTube →
  18. 18
    Channel 5 channel5.com English No trackers

    No access outside UK

    British TV station

    Compare Channel 5 with YouTube →
  19. 19
    NBC Sports nbcsports.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    NBC Sports - news, scores, stats, rumors, videos, and more

    Stay up-to-date with the latest sports news and scores from NBC Sports.

    Compare NBC Sports with YouTube →
  20. 20
    American Broadcasting Company abc.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    ABC Network - ABC.com

    Watch the ABC Shows online at abc.com. Get exclusive videos and free episodes.

    Compare American Broadcasting Company with YouTube →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles YouTube’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones YouTube uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what YouTube adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
44 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to YouTube’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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